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The judge has reached a verdict in the trial of a Michelle Carter. Carter is the Massachusetts woman charged with manslaughter for sending her boyfriend dozens of text messages encouraging him to kill himself. A court clerk said Judge Lawrence Moniz will announce his verdict Friday when court is back in session at 11 am...

UPDATE 11:27 A.M., TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) — A judge has denied a request for a not-guilty verdict by an attorney for a Massachusetts woman charged with involuntary manslaughter for allegedly convincing her boyfriend to kill himself through a series of text messages...

TAUNTON (AP) — A friend of a Massachusetts woman charged with using text messages to encourage her boyfriend to kill himself said in court the woman told her, "It's my fault." Michelle Carter is charged with manslaughter in the July 2014 death of 18-year-old Conrad Roy III, who died of carbon monoxide poisoning in his pickup in Fairhaven...

BOSTON (AP) - A lawyer for former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez has objected to the judge's selection of a white woman as the jury forewoman in his double-murder trial. Attorney Ronald Sullivan Jr. made his argument Monday as jurors started their second day of deliberations...

NEW BEDFORD - Many of us barely know how to use the latest technology, but State Troopers assigned to the Bristol County District Attorney's Office are now experts on dismantling and forensically analyzing such equipment after years of specialized training...

BOSTON (AP) - Attorneys for former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez don't want jurors at his upcoming double murder trial to hear about his tattoos or text messages he sent to his sports agent. Hernandez is charged with killing 29-year-old Daniel de Abreu and 28-year-old Safiro Furtado in 2012...

PLAINVILLE, Mass. (AP) - A Massachusetts judge has ruled that statements made by a woman who sent her boyfriend text messages encouraging him to kill himself can be used by prosecutors at her manslaughter trial. The Sun Chronicle reports a Taunton Juvenile Court judge on Tuesday denied a motion by 20-year-old Michelle Carter's lawyers to suppress statements she made to police...

BOSTON (AP) _ The trial of a Massachusetts fishing magnate known as ``The Codfather'' on federal conspiracy and cash smuggling charges has been scheduled for January. The trial for 64-year-old Carlos Rafael and an alleged accomplice was scheduled by a judge Wednesday...

Bill Cosby will stand trial for sexual assault. A judge in Pennsylvania said the comedian will stand trial on sexual assault charges leveled against him by former Temple University employee Andrea Constand. She claims Cosby drugged and assaulted her in 2004...

Jury selection in the murder trial of a friend of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez is getting started.